SIGNIFICANT SHORTS : Teenager fined for playing loud music
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Your support makes all the difference.A teenager was fined pounds 350 for playing loud music in his car. Gary Smith, 19, appeared before Eastbourne magistrates yesterday, after the borough council brought a case against him under the Control of Pollution Act 1974. He denied a charge of playing a loud speaker in a car which could cause annoyance between 9pm and 8am.
Magistrates heard the case followed a crackdown by police in the town following residents' complaints. Smith, of Cobbold Avenue, Eastbourne, was stopped in his H-registered Vauxhall Cavalier, inside which police discovered a giant speaker on the back seat.
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